If you’re like us, you devoured each episode of the second season of Westworld. And if you’re like us, you’re devastated it’s over! It’s always good to have books waiting in the wings to stave off the post-show crash. Here are a few suggestions to hold you over until next season returns!
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Go back to the source material! The HBO series is the adaptation of Michael Crichton’s Westworld, a film he wrote and directed in 1973. The screenplay was later published as a paperback. A little confusing, we know, but still a very interesting look at the story of Westworld from the concept’s creator.
Go back to the source material! The HBO series is the adaptation of Michael Crichton’s Westworld, a film he wrote and directed in 1973. The screenplay was later published as a paperback. A little confusing, we know, but still a very interesting look at the story of Westworld from the concept’s creator.
Strange Fire by Tommy Walach reads like a blend of Westworld and the Oregon Trail. This YA novel follows multiple characters, including brothers who fight against each other in a war between two civilizations. If you love the Western vibes of Westworld, then you’ll love the Western themes in Strange Fire, as well as its themes of humanity and technology.
What if the asteroid heading toward Earth in Tommy Wallach’s New York Times bestselling novel, We All Looked Up, actually hit and demolished our planet? What if, after thousands of years, two civilizations rose from the ashes? What if those cities found out about each other? Through the viewpoints of multiple characters, Strange Fire describes the beginnings of an inevitable war between these two civilizations, a war that will pit faith against science, zealotry against technology...and brother against brother.They said that the first generation of man was brought low by its appetites: for knowledge, for power, for wealth. It was so great, the Lord sent his own Daughter to bring fire and devastation to the world. Brothers Clive and Clover Hamill, the sons of a well-respected Descendant minister, have spent their lives spreading that gospel. But when their traveling ministry discovers a community called Sophia that's intent on rediscovering the blasphemous technologies of the past, a chain of events will be set in motion. Alongside Gemma Poplin, Clive’s childhood sweetheart, and Paz Dedios, a revolutionary who dreams of overthrowing the Descendancy, Clive’s and Clover’s paths will diverge, and each will play a part in determining the fate of humanity itself.
You can’t talk about Western sci-fi stories without talking about The Gunslinger and the rest of the Dark Tower series by Stephen King (and we’re huge Stephen King fans over here!). The Gunslinger had its own adaptation last year (starring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey), but we’re obviously going to recommend the book! The story follows Roland, the gunslinger, as he chases “the man in black,”and ultimately tries to get to the Dark Tower. With a dystopian setting, plenty of action and questions about good and evil, this novel is really the perfect book to keep you going until the next episode of Westworld.
Now a major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba “An impressive work of mythic magnitude that may turn out to be Stephen King’s greatest literary achievement” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution), The Gunslinger is the first volume in the epic Dark Tower Series.A #1 national bestseller, The Gunslinger introduces readers to one of Stephen King’s most powerful creations, Roland of Gilead: The Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner on a spellbinding journey into good and evil. In his desolate world, which mirrors our own in frightening ways, Roland tracks The Man in Black, encounters an enticing woman named Alice, and begins a friendship with the boy from New York named Jake. Inspired in part by the Robert Browning narrative poem, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came,” The Gunslinger is “a compelling whirlpool of a story that draws one irretrievable to its center” (Milwaukee Sentinel). It is “brilliant and fresh…and will leave you panting for more” (Booklist).
